Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

“One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
—Denis Waitly. Quoted in The Winning Family, ch. 25, by Louise Hart (1987)

“When the old man on the border lost his horse, who could know that it was good fortune in disguise?”
—Chinese proverb.